Ban on Guns Near Schools To Be Argued

By Mark Walsh

Washington

Alfonso Lopez Jr.'s 1992 arrest for gun possession at a San Antonio high school seemed to be just another example of the growing threat of weapons in schools.

Mr. Lopez, then a senior at Edison High School, has said he was paid $40 to deliver the .38-caliber handgun to another person to be used in an after-school "gang war." School officials were tipped off, and Mr. Lopez was arrested and charged with gun posession on school premises, a third-degree...